10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of The World” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 10

Facts of The World – 10

751. To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.

752. The Chinese do not use alphabets – the letters of a language given in a regular order. They draw out in shapes whole words. These idea shapes are called ‘ideograms’.

753. The Malaysian considers the sighting of a lizard a good omen.

754. The Malaysians train pigtail monkeys to climb coconut trees and bring down coconuts for them.

755. A tornado is measured on the Fujita scale just as an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale.

756. The bridegroom in Korea is usually younger than the bride.

757. The ‘Gita Rahasya’, the celebrated commentary on the Gita, was written by Lokmanya Tilak while he was in jail.

758. Jawaharla Nehru wrote ‘Glimpses of World History’ as well as ‘Discovery of India’ while he was in jail.

759. In 1848, when gold was first mined in California (U.S.A), a silver dollar was worth more than a gold dollar.

760. When aluminum was first obtained in its pure form from ore in 1825, the French king served his special guests in Plates made from aluminum.